Terms of use

These terms cover your use of Australia Is Beautiful. By using the site — browsing it, creating an account, or contributing — you agree to them. We've kept them as plain as we can.

Using the site

Anyone can browse Australia Is Beautiful — look at places, read field notes, and view photos — without an account. You need an account only to contribute: to upload photos, write notes, rate places, save them, or suggest new ones.

You're responsible for keeping your account secure and for what happens under it. Let us know promptly if you think someone else has access to it.

Your contributions

You own what you make

The photos and notes you upload remain yours. Creating an account doesn't transfer ownership of your work to us.

The permission you give us

So that we can actually show your contribution as part of the guide, you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, re-encode, display, and distribute the photos and notes you submit, as part of the place they belong to, on this site and in link previews when a place is shared. This licence exists only to run the service. It ends for a given piece of content when you delete it (see below), except where it has already been shared onward by others or is required to be retained for legal reasons.

What you promise about what you upload

By uploading, you confirm that:

• The photos are yours — you took them, or you have the right to share them.
• They don't infringe anyone else's copyright, privacy, or other rights.
• They're honest — a real photo of a real place, not misleading or faked.
• They don't contain unlawful, hateful, harassing, or explicit content, and don't identify or target other people without their consent.

Contributions are anonymous and reviewed

Everything you contribute is shown without your name— as “an Explorer,” never as a personal post. There are no public profiles, followers, or author credits on this site by design.

Contributions are reviewed by a personbefore they appear publicly. We may decline or remove content that doesn't fit the guide or breaks these terms. We aim to review promptly and to tell you when your content goes live or isn't approved, but we don't guarantee that any particular contribution will be published.

Deleting your content

You can delete your own photos at any time, and they're removed permanently. You can delete your whole account from your settings, which removes your own contributions. Some anonymous aggregates you contributed to — such as a place's average rating — remain as aggregates, because they aren't identifiable to you. This is described in the privacy policy.

What you may not do

• Upload content you don't have the right to, or that breaks the promises above.
• Abuse, harass, or endanger others, or use the site to do so.
• Attempt to break, overload, scrape at scale, or gain unauthorised access to the site or other people's accounts.
• Misuse the “suggest a place” or reporting features — for example, spamming requests or false reports.

We may suspend or remove accounts that break these terms, to protect the guide and the people using it.

The guide is curated, not comprehensive

Places are added deliberately, and field notes come from other people. We do our best to keep things accurate, but we can't guarantee that every detail — conditions, access, opening times, safety — is current or correct. Use your own judgement, especially outdoors. You're responsible for your own safety when visiting any place you find here.

Availability

We offer the site as it is and as available. We may change, pause, or discontinue features, and we don't promise the site will always be available or error-free. To the extent the law allows, we're not liable for loss arising from your use of the site or from places you visit because of it. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under Australian Consumer Law that can't be excluded.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we'll change the “last updated” date above, and significant changes will be made clear. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia, and you and we submit to the courts of that State.

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